Nightgowns Plus Quotes

#1. I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

Joan Hackett

#2. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Joseph Jacobs

#3. Two people unable to cry finally cry together and in the world ended today, we would be fulfilled.

J.A. Redmerski

#4. My moral code is no more or less than my likes and dislikes.

Albert Camus

#5. I feel dirty when I visit my mother. I feel that her intimacy is exposed. Her nightgowns are so thin that her flesh shows through them. Her need is like a vagina. And I do not like to see it.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. The Slow Club is playing,a band I like,all plucky and bitter-sweet and kind of offbeat.Like Finch,I think.Like us.

Jennifer Niven

#7. Sleeping was impossible, and we would often be found wandering the house, our white nightgowns gleaming in the darkness, a trio of Lady Macbeths, driven mad by the mercury.

Eleanor Brown

#8. Instead, I get to know that a greater yes is in progress, and I can count on the bigger miracle.

Beth Moore

#9. Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

#10. I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out.

Joaquin Castro

#11. Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Marilyn Monroe

#12. I sleep in the pajamas almost every single night, if not, the nightgowns.

Jill Stuart

#13. Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

Joey Comeau

#14. When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Marge Piercy

#15. I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.

Jenny Slate

#16. Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.

Suzanne Palmieri

#17. In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Heinrich Heine

#18. Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.

Barbara Bartlein

#19. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

Russell Banks

#20. It's not the circumstances we find ourselves in that define us, it's how we overcome them.

Nicole Reed

#21. I don't know how to pray,
but I've seen them do it
on TV; kneeling by a bed
in nightgowns, hands woven
like secret friends.

Jessica Bell

#22. Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Joyce Brothers